Alternatively, you could talk about Unf--k the Gulf (NSFW, language) if you prefer.
Dude, they've been back in for ages. Even I knew that, and I hate most hipster eyeware choices.
I've been telling my mom that NOW is the time to replace my father's honest-to-God 1960s Wayfarers with a new, unglued-together pair.
The Oakleys website doesn't give me a lot of hope for their comeback. The zeitgeist is wrong for wanting to run around town looking like a dorkwad downhill skiier.
I'm so tired of those knockoff wayfarers with the neon. No, it's vintage aviators or nothin' for me.
Because I'm like Tackleberry in Police Academy.
5: I dunno, I have a very fashion-forward friend in LA who is super into that whole look.
I don't even own a pair of sunglasses.
5: You'd think so, but I saw some not six hours ago. Of course, these are liable to be the same people who decided to spend the last ten years wearing big fuck-off sunglasses that make you look like you're attempting a disguise. Why anyone would intentionally make themselves more like Posh Spice is beyond me.
7.---True, the bicycle shorts on the recent runways do suggest that an Oakley renaissance may be around the next corner. The look I've been seeing more often around town tips a hat to vintage rather than cyberpunk, though.
9: trying to get Beckham's checkbook?
9.last also applies to posh spice
Mad Men
If it can go for another few seasons, my current style will become the very height of fashion.
Not really. The show takes place in NYC. Damn.
The only sunglasses I own are skiing oriented - i.e. curved around the sides to help keep the wind out of my eyes. They're also useful for biking. Given that prescription sunglasses cost a fortune, I'm not going to be buying any other pairs, no matter how dorkwaddish they make me look.
10: The look I've been seeing more often around town tips a hat to vintage rather than cyberpunk, though.
Does the cyberpunk look even include Oakleys? I thought cyberpunk glasses looked like those aviators currently popular with the steampunks? Did I miss a trend?
max
['Steampunk sunglasses like these.']
Cyberpunk, steampunk... what's the next -punk?
God only knows what the Etsy store for nanopunk would look like.
Furries appear to be the antithesis of punk, so we're safe from that at least.
17: Atompunk. Hybridizes nicely with the Mad Men obsession, I'd imagine.
20: I'd guess you could drape a furry in leather, chains and pins, and give it a hairdo of defiance, without too much trouble.
21: And has something to do with M/tch's proposed stringed instrument tuned a fifth lower than a violin, apparently.
I've always wondered when "nanotech" enthusiasts are going to discover the prefixes "pico-" and "femto-". "Atto-", even!
Check out my yoctopunk iPad cover...
22.--You could, but it would still be a furry.
26 "This fluffy hat is new, 100% vegan and sweatshop free."
Oh good. I was afraid it was made of vegans.
22 I'd guess you could drape a furry in leather, chains and pins, and give it a hairdo of defiance, without too much trouble.
You did a googleimage search on 'furry punk' too?
Prescription sunglasses are the best reason to patronize the various online glasses sites (zenni, optical4less, etc) - they're cheap and you won't be depending on them as your only pair. I paid $18, including shipping, for prescription sunglasses with a moderately strong prescription, and they're fine - no optical issues I've noticed, and totally in the same ballpark as my normal ~$500 glasses.
21: Design guidance for atompunks. (From a pretty neat site, actually.)
Damn, I think I paid close to $300 once you included tax. Part of it was because I needed dark wraparound ones suitable to extreme glare at high speed, part was because they refused to do them without the very minor astigmatism I've got on my prescription. On the plus side they really are great for skiing and adequate for biking and hiking (they sweat up a bit which can be a pain), and that's the only stuff I really need them for.
Heh. Reminds me of a display case I saw in Los Alamos last month, of pop-culture ephemera from the atomic era. Like brightly colored kids' board games about nuclear war.
29: Sadly, I just had to think about it.
What's the deal with the new Google Image Search? Why are things numbered as different "pages" listed on one page?
Real design guidance for atompunks:
We were lying there, very tense, in the early dawn, and there were just a few streaks of gold in the east; you could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the longest ten seconds that I ever experienced. Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way right through you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it to stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds. Finally it was over, diminishing, and we looked toward the place where the bomb had been; there was an enormous ball of fire which grew and grew and it rolled as it grew; it went up into the air, in yellow flashes and into scarlet and green. It looked menacing. It seemed to come toward one.
Also:
From ten miles away, we saw the unbelievably brilliant flash. That was not the most impressive thing. We knew it was going to be blinding. We wore welder's glasses. The thing that got me was not the flash but the blinding heat of a bright day on your face in the cold desert morning. It was like opening a hot oven with the sun coming out like a sunrise.
So: welder's glasses.
Neb attempted to lay down the law on "tweecore", but isn't he off in the wilds somewhere? If you want to establish "furrypunk", now's your chance.
Speaking of Neb and sunglasses, you can get "Nebb" sunglasses here.
I badly need new glasses, but I've been putting off making an appointment for an eye exam for like a year. Maybe I should get sunglasses as well. They'd come in handy every now and then, when driving.
It's glacier glasses or nothing for me.
... "femto-".
Insufficiently appreciated.
41 I've got a pair or two of those but can't use them since my right eye decided to play catch up with my left a few years ago. Not so good for skiing and biking since you've got no peripheral vision, but absolutely the best thing for high altitude hiking, glacier or no glacier.
I am wearing rimless Oakleys right now.
I guess you're not in the US, or you're trying to pick women up as a blind person "you know what they say about our sense of touch, ladeez"
He's a flipster.
Then he should knock Lord Buckley his lobes.
There's a Shane McGowan quote about the difference between hip and cool but it was pretty unintelligible even in the '80s.
I guess you're not in the US, or you're trying to pick women up as a blind person "you know what they say about our sense of touch, ladeez"
This reminds me of a short story by Kilgore Trout.
32: It's a great site. The feeling of impending doom doesn't translate well from the Fifties though, it's all sorts of quaint now. That's acceptable.
Not sure that mismatched socks is a good example of why you aren't trendy. In fact, I'm pretty sure that mismatched socks and claims of not being able to follow the trends makes you defacto trendy.
My 12 year old is very into mismatched stuff atm. I often see her friends wearing odd socks, and she has a great pair of tights with different legs. And if you are a 12 year old girl, "shades" is hopelessly aged-parents-territory - they're called "sunnies".
One of my acquaintances from high school has created a business catering to young girls' desire for mismatched socks. He was always going to be an entrepreneur, but nobody could have guessed that it would be socks.
"your socks don't match"
"Yeah they do. I go by thickness."
My wife has a pair of leather side-shield Vuarnets from 30+ years ago that I like; it looks like they've moved on to other looks these days.
I found my Ray-Bans from the 80s. Now I can look cool again. Thanks Stanley.
If I get contact lenses so I could wear my Ray-Bans.
Funny this should be posted, as just yesterday I said "I should have brought my shades" in front of a bunch of twenty-somethings. They pointed and laughed and said "shades? shades??"
Did Ray-Bans really ever go out? I mean black or tortoise ones? Surely the white and red (etc.) ones went out and came back in several years ago. Hipster undergrads are all about the white Ray-Bans.
55: that rules. I bet those'll be back in soon. Not for us, mind.
You know who else made fun of the word "shades"? Gaydolph Hipster.
There was a trickle of Ray-Bans last year and it seemed early this year they came in all at once. Or maybe I'm off by a year. In any case, I would love to know how this happened. It seems like someone has to be responsible.
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"Saying something like "man, it's pretty amazing how 65 people at this outdoor concert all decided to get their sunglasses at exactly the same time," should only be directed at a white person who is not wearing Wayfarers. This will make them feel better about not fitting in, but it will also make them self conscious about their plan to buy a pair."
Hipster undergrads are all about the white Ray-Bans.
The reason I noticed they were surging, er, had surged, was my own purchase of some white ones, with American-flaggy interiors (interiors? you know, the part that's touching your face). They were $3 at a Wal-Mart in Kansas. I was amused by the subtly hidden American flag and figured they were factory rejects or something. No red-blooded American would hide the flag like that.
and don't cast scorn on all the neon, folks. a) they make new neon ray-bans now b) what I have are vintage 80s knock-offs in neon. that's legit.
Unfortunately, the neon Wayfarers were always stupid. Unless you also wear Jams. Do you wear Jams? That, that is legit.
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Kasey Chambers, Aussie country, is kinda a kid, but kinda fun because of that. At least she makes me smile.
Well it hurts down here on Earth lord
It hurts down here on Earth
It hurts down here cause we're running out of beer
But we're all gonna die someday
Janie got stoned cause she couldn't get boned
But we're all gonna die someday
Well they can all kiss my ass lord
They can all kiss my ass
If they want to kiss my ass well they better make it fast
'Cos we're all gonna die someday
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does the existence of atompunk mean David Lee Roth was prescient when he wrote the words to "Atomic Punk", back in '79 ?
I saw a woman decked top to toe in Units not long ago. In the Cleveland airport. She was not a Linda-Evans wing-banged hipster chick either. God, Units were terrifying.*
My extensive Google research has not made entirely clear to me what the fuck Units is.
67 - Jams, shmams. I want to know who is gonna bring OPs back.
Can we get to the Mad Men backlash already?
Surely that should at least wait until Sunday?
Can we get to the Mad Men backlash already?
I was just wondering whether it would be morally, if not legally, defensible to cold-bloodedly murder the next columnist or blogger who thinks a nation of 350 million people is captivated by a television program that approximately one million people watch.
Ah, but Flip, those other 349 people are indeed held captive by the program—through its agents, the columnists and bloggers who keep talking about it endlessly.
a nation of 350 million people
Is that the US, then?
Is that the US, then?
Is there another very large First World country where the new generation of putative intellectuals refuses to shut the fuck up about premium cable soap operas?
Can we get to the Mad Men backlash already?
76:I was going to point flipp to the proven social theory fact that one person in every hundred has 90% of the relationships and sets all trends but I don't even know enough to google it.
This of course creates a pyramid structure where two people in the country determine all fashion.
Those persons are Corey Feldman and Mary-Kate Olsen.
Stanley he appears in the very article you cite in the OP. Coincidence? I think not.
16: Steam vs. cyber, max.
Yes, I know. But steampunk goggles are not too far off those round John Lennon-style (called what?) sunglasses that the cyberpunks wore back in the day. I don't remember seeing any cyber or steampunks wearing Ray Bans or Oakleys.... not when they're punked out. But then maybe I'm an old industrial goth and missed something.
78: 349 million, of course.
That includes the 41 million that haven't bothered to show up yet, I suppose.
max
['Lookie! Here's a clock for that from the Census Bureau.']
85: Oh. So he does. I read bob as saying that Corey Feldman determines fashion trends now, to which I thought, duh, obviously bob meant Justin Bieber.
Yay, air conditioning! Though it doesn't seem to be capable of getting the temperature back down to comfortable when it keeps getting hotter outside and it's starting from 90-ish.
That includes the 41 million that haven't bothered to show up yet, I suppose.
I was just following Flippanter's lead.
This of course creates a pyramid structure where two people in the country determine all fashion.
Someday, when I am older and yet more curmudgeonly, I'm going to figure out a way to formalize magpie tendencies for people who otherwise tend to become creatures of habit. Every time I am lulled into thinking that the whole country is following the same trend or interest, I am relieved to discover that it's only my social circle and a few major media outlets. A very small adjustment in behavior puts me in contact with a whole realm of people going about their lives in an entirely different arena, complete with different values, fashions, leisure pursuits, etc. It really is immensely comforting.
In the meantime, in the absence of doing that, I'm going to keep trying to talk some smart person into writing up something that updates the concept of "fugitive literature" for the Internet generation. It amazes me how cognitively impossible it seems to be for people to imagine. Although it's kind of like how I feel about the deep sea, I guess.
Yay, essear! I went downtown expecting to spend some nice cool time in Spanish group, but after 45 minutes we got fire-alarm evacuated out into the heat and I came home again. My new plan is to sit quietly on the couch and consider working.
Does "fugitive literature" mean, as Google suggests, literature that's hard to find?
Speaking of, uh, trends: holy shit, there are pretzel M&Ms now?!?!?!
92: Sort of, but not like an out-of-print book. It means things that are also hard to know exist. So, a print-only (no electronic version) guidebook that some obscure state government agency developed, or an annual census conducted by an amateur birdwatcher, or a neighborhood plan described at a zoning meeting, or a commencement speech printed only in a community newspaper, or a hospital's patient handout.
It's also connected to the idea that when there is no central clearinghouse and the people don't have tools to identify and collect fugitive materials on their own, there is likely to be more low-quality, reinventing-the-wheel stuff produced. Remember when Brock was up in arms about the fact that the pre-surgical-procedure instructions he got were an old Xerox copy with poorly explained information that was somewhat self-contradictory?
93: I saw those in a 7-11 recently. I'm probably going to break down and buy a bag.
95: A cow-orker just gave me some. They're kinda like mildly salty malted milk balls. In other words, they are delicious.
Wow, look at the thread in 94. ogged! Cala! soup biscuit! bitchphd! What happened to this place?
The pretzel m&m's are okay. I like the coconut ones.
It would be awesome to have a big bowl full of different kinds, since I actually like 'em all. Mmm. Decadent.
I'm holding out for BLL-flavored M&M's. You gotta dream, right?
I don't have Wayfarers, it turns out. I have the aviator style things from the Top Gun era. So, I'm guessing those won't be back until 2016 or so.
On the other hand, I won $75 at the blackjack table this morning.
They were $3 at a Wal-Mart in Kansas.
Oh Stanley, say it ain't so.
What happened to this place?
If the blog seems poor to you, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches
It wasn't poetry that helped me win $75. It was the dealer busting seven out of ten hands.
I don't have Wayfarers, it turns out. I have the aviator style things from the Top Gun era. So, I'm guessing those won't be back until 2016 or so.
They've already made a comeback in the Bay Area...
Oh Stanley, say it ain't so.
Yeah, sorry to disappoint. They actually won't let you leave the state until you've bought something at Wal-Mart. You have to show a receipt at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.
I have fake aviators, which I believe to be fashionable-ish (I only wear them in the car). One certainly sees them around a lot.
Also, that's some impressively early morning gambling. Are you in Vegas?
112: I have not left Pittsburgh. The casino, which just started table games this month, is right next to the Science Museum and I didn't think it takes two parents to watch one kid.
113: So you let your wife have a nice quiet visit to the museum, while you taught your son to gamble? That was very thoughtful, Moby.
That does seem fantastically decadent, gambling on a Saturday morning *AND* getting out of boring parenting stuff! We have a couple of casinos here in town but (I just looked) they don't open until 2pm. I will have a lot of time to myself next week though ...
When I was younger I had a secret wish to be a croupier - it seems so glamorous! (Ignore the fact that I am not at all glamorous in that croupier way in actual life. I'm sure I could pretend, and even enjoy it for a short time.)
The movie Croupier is intermittently glamorous.
"Your socks don't match," my standard response is, "Sure, they do; they're both socks"
LOL! Classic :-)
"acuvue oasys" is a bad pseud. Try "Wry Cooter".
When I was younger I had a secret wish to be a croupier...
I didn't pay attention to the croupiers, but the dealer looked like that henchman who had the metal teeth in the James Bond movie. That is, the dealer had ordinary teeth, but his face was similar to that guy's face.
117: You're right, but I found it overall pretty unsatisfying.
*AND* getting out of boring parenting stuff!
But . . . but . . . it's a SCIENCE museum! I can only conclude that either Moby Hick is, despite all appearances, a cretin, or Pittsburgh's science museum must suck.
Not to pile on 118, but "LOL" AND and emoticon?
NO FRUITBASKET FOR YOU!
Ah! I finally looked at the picture(s) linked in the OP of the Ray-Ban Wayfarers: I have a pair, or at least a pair of look-alikes, and used to wear them quite a bit. They look almost exactly like the first picture on the linked page.
I thought they looked sort of cool at the time (years ago), but you know what's wrong with them? The nose-pinchy part that's supposed to actually keep them up in front of your eyes instead of sliding down your nose is ... inadequate. Particularly if you're at all sweaty.
In other words, they slide down your nose frequently and you're constantly having to push them back up, which is just so, so nerdy a thing to keep doing.
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68: bob you might like the band I'm sitting in with on accordion tonight:
All the boys drink vinegar
and all the men eat rocks
All the women are tough as nails
and all the chickens are cocks
cause this is Bad Town
everybody in this town is bad
|>
124: The problem is that you're sweating. You should perspire instead.
125: It's bizarro world Lake Wobegone!
126: I thought sure the problem was that my nose is so aquiline, dear.
122: The museum is very nice, but I've been there half a hundred times.
half a hundred times
I was told there'd be no math.
I was told there'd be no math.
But it's Not-Tuesday.
LOL and emoticons are deprecated.
HA! is acceptable.
I didn't see Mitch's 123 before I posted. I felt so strongly that I needed to go down to the end of the comments and respond right away.
these guys have very cheap glasses:
http://www.zennioptical.com/home.php
I got these prescription sunglasses for 13 dollars:
http://www.zennioptical.com/product.php?productid=1618&cat=&page=1
In my opinion, Stanley, you should have had a space on either side of the ellipsis in the post.
This looks like an unlikely new trend:
http://thefastertimes.com/tv/2010/07/20/nba-jerseys-of-pitchfork/
I actually just started wearing acuvue oasys contacts last year. As far as I can tell, the vision and comfort are the same,* but they're more difficult to put on and take out and they cost a lot more, and the solutions you're supposed to use with them also cost more. I think this comment should be appended to every comment where "acuvue oasys" comments.
*Supposedly they're healthier than the other ones I wear.
I can't wear those Oasys ones. I've been wearing Acuvue 2 lenses since they started making them, and they've been trying to talk me into Oasys, but I refuse. They feel just awful to me. Maybe they've gotten better.
I'm going to have to get new contacts before I go back to Canada, and my US prescription is the only one I have, so I will probably end up re-ordering the oasys. But when I finally see an optometrist up there, after a long wait because of the socialized medicine, I'm going to push them on whether the oasys is really better because I'd kind of like to go back to wearing the Acuvue 2.
111: The Aviators or the Serengeti auto-darkening equivalents were great for my motorcycle + contact lens combination. No slipping down the nose, big enough to keep wind and grit out of the eyes, and not polarized so oil and water slicks on the road were visible.
In my opinion, Stanley, you should have had a space on either side of the ellipsis in the post.
I think, deep down, I'm dissatisfied by the hellip command thingy and would prefer simply to put periods with a space on either side of each one. I vaguely recall that this was what the Chicago Manual of Style may have prescribed. So, like . . . this.
it's vintage aviators or nothin' for me
Would that I could pull off aviators. I've got the wrong face shape, or something.
I've always thought of aviators as 'twats' shades'; but ended up buying a pair recently [only thing in the shop that fitted my head, honest]. And now I have to deal with the cognitive dissonance raised by the fact that they actually sort of look OK.
I've always thought of aviators as 'twats' shades'
But on the other hand, a twat I can get behind.
Or, uh...
Oh well. Swing low, sweet fruit.
Why anyone would intentionally make themselves more like Posh Spice Jackie O. is beyond me eminently fathomable.
150: Really? Hm. Gusty bus, I guess.
151: A steam-driven gusty bus, by the looks of the spectacles in question.
Not to wear in public -- I imagine few people could carry them off -- but the combination of the brass (?) and the turquoise/teal lenses is so pretty to look at and they're all nice and heavy-duty. The double-lens-flip-out-to-the-side thing: objectively cool.
Besides, I need more pretty, non-functional items to sit on shelves.
The double-lens-flip-out-to-the-side thing: objectively cool.
Agreed. Swingy moving parts = cool. Is there some sort of functionality to double lenses that I'm not getting off the top of my head? Maybe it's like the swimmers who practice with a drag suit or something.
155: They're like spare tires in case one of the main lenses breaks.
Or maybe to provide side protection, kind of like those visor things in cars.
WANT.
WOW! Those are awesome, Kraab! Quick! Buy them, because I can't!
max
['Go Kraab.']
115: I think it's so you can choose between single or double lens darkness.
158: Alas, I really can't justify spending a hundred bucks on them, especially when we've just moved into a new house and have a gazillion other things to buy. (Query: how in god's name does Big Linen get away with charging $200 for a duvet cover?!)
(Query: how in god's name does Big Linen get away with charging $200 for a duvet cover?!)
Ooh! I know! Answer: by selling them to people who know what a duvet is, own one (or more), and understand why a duvet would need a cover.
How'd I do?
Don't you sass me, young man. You know you forked over some bucks for a futon cover.
155-157: Apparently they were originally a bifocal alternative:
Patents were granted to Addison Smith in 1783 and to J.R. Richardson in London in 1797 for what could be called an alternative to bifocals. Each was comprised of an extra pair of lenses hinged to the main spectacles, the Addison Smith variety came down from above while the Richardson variety rotated in from the sides behind the distance correction, in order to correct for near work.
I couple of months agoI lost my pair of Ray Bans that I had had since 1982. I think they were in the pocket of a jacket that went to the dry cleaner. I had bought them at the PX at Parris Island. I did not find five dollars.
that I had had since 1982
A year of many great beginnings, it must be said.
I heard Stanley had like 30 goddamn beginnings.
we've just moved into a new house
Hey, congratulations! Surviving a move deserves major kudos, whether or not it involved an actual home purchase.
I heard Stanley had like 30 goddamn beginnings.
It's been done.
Data point!
One of the hipster-ish youths who works in my new office just came in wearing what appear to be genuine Ray-Ban Wayfarers, in some kind of a tortoiseshell kind of a colorway.
I don't see tortoiseshell color.
"Colorway"? Is that an industry term like "Mouthfeel"?
Sadly, Ray-Ban is now just Yet Another Brand owned by Luxottica, and even the current Wayfarer models are cheaply made knock-offs of the awesome old ones. FWIW, though, the really old-school ones were made of a particular acetate prone to disintegration, so a true vintage Wayfarer is probably a fleeting possession at best.
Also FWIW, Oakley is also owned by Luxottica, as are nearly all the mall sunglasses stores that push all these trends. It is safe to assume that once Ray-Ban "nostalgia" wears off Luxottica will be ready to push some other label (like Oakley).
Yes, I have spent entirely too much money on sunglasses over the years.
I need to get sunglasses. I was nearly blinded driving around sunset today.
Okay, this is the procedure for trendy glasses:
Look at all the fashion blogs. Find the most outre and borderline ugly frames that are still posted on a fashion blog.
Google around the internet to confirm that old people, the poor, early rappers, or people living at least fifty years ago wore this style and that no one in your generation does. For preference, there should be a discourse among middle-aged people about how this style is ugly, boring and old-fashioned.
Now find your frames! Tell everyone that you're just too dorky to pick fashionable ones, or that you used to wear glasses just like these in junior high because your family was too poor to afford trendy ones. (It is accepted to lie about this, because it is fashionable to claim to have been dorky and persecuted.)
Oh, and it's important that you be classically good-looking if you pick ugly glasses. Ugly glasses are only fashionable if they throw your perfect features into high relief. And you should be young--if you're old, people might think that you're wearing unfashionable glasses because you're unfashionable. If you happen to be old, you should get a very severe haircut, which may compensate. Also, if you are a woman in mannish glasses, you need to be clearly heterosexual--little features, long hair, kittenish manner with the men. Otherwise people will think you're a dyke who is wearing ugly glasses because she does not care about men.
The most important part is maintaining a narrative of your own naivete--you're just a nerdy, dorky outcast who doesn't have the fashion smarts to plan their look. If you can maintain this narrative while running a hipster fashion magazine, all the better.
Once two people in your social circle have similar glasses, you need to find a new pair. Try moving forward a decade--if your last glasses were seventies, try eighties. Or try moving genres, but pay attention to which genres are trendy--early rap, yes; mid-period punk no. It's also funny to wear the corporate-conformist glasses of twenty years ago, particularly if you're white and wealthy.
Oh, and it's important that you be classically good-looking if you pick ugly glasses. Ugly glasses are only fashionable if they throw your perfect features into high relief.
So, what you're saying is I'm going to need some really good-looking glasses.
I have noticed finding the really oversized glasses from the 80's adorable on women. I don't think they'd work on me, though.
It is no good, at all, ultimately, to try to wear visually appealing glasses. I admit I still fret about it, every 10 years or so when I've been on a glasses-buying mission, but observe:
A few years ago a guy I was dating said, "You look cute in your glasses." A year later, another guy I was dating said, "We really need to get you some new glasses."
Same glasses I was wearing! Having turned this over in my mind a few times, with some amusement, I conclude: either a person could use this kind of thing to reflect on the person one is dating, or not. Either it means your glasses look stupid, or not.
179 is funny.
A few years ago a guy I was dating said, "You look cute in your glasses." A year later, another guy I was dating said, "We really need to get you some new glasses."
Were they the same person?
Another guy. Not the same person. They partook of different aesthetics, to be sure, but it's not the case that the glasses went from being cute to being troublesome, as though they went out of style. They were the same semi-out-of-style, fairly noncommittal, but not that bad, glasses.
I have noticed finding the really oversized glasses from the 80's adorable on women. I don't think they'd work on me, though.
This is just wrong. They are hideous and should be resisted at all times.
resisted at all times
Like, if you you were of glasses-wearing age in the 80s, you should have resisted them at the time.
185: I had no control over it. They were forced on me. If I had my way, I'd burn every picture of me wearing them. (Ok, that goes too far, I was an adorable little kid with hideous glasses.) But seriously, wretched, wretched things.
I was an adorable little kid with hideous glasses.
So, per 179.5, you were terribly fashionable as a child, is what you're saying.
I not so long ago saw some old pictures of myself from my glasses wearing days in junior high. The glasses were huge, but not stylistically in tune with any particular decade. They were really unfashionably hideous. But they were functional: I can wear smaller glasses now only because they've created thinner materials that work on prescriptions as strong as mine.
I managed to find an extremely appealing and apparently fashionable (in that people occasionally comment on them, including the very fashion-forward teen Christian rapper I tutor so maybe in fact I'm in the unfashionably fashionable category) pair of glasses when I got new frames last year and now I know that whatever I get next year will be a step down because I just lucked into these.
